Pencil-pointer



W. E. SIMONDSI.

(No Model.)

PENCIL POINTER. Patented De0.15,1896.

Witnesses. I ln v'enzar. I

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, OF CANTON, CONNECTICUT.

PENCIL-POINTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,364, dated December 15, 1896.

Application filed January 2, 1895.

Figure 1 is a View of the complete pencilpointer. Fig. 2 is a view of the samein crosssection.

The object and purpose of the improvement are the production of a device for pointing lead-pencils or the like.

The letter (t denotes a body of hard wood or other suitable material.

1) denotes convergent faces formed therein.

0 denotes an opening or recess along the length of the body a, uncovered at the top.

61 denotes spring-clamps, preferably formed of one piece of metal.

6 denotes abrading material-such, for in stance, as sandpaper.

f denotes a rubber band.

The material 6 having been cut out into proper shape is fitted into the opening 0 and upon the faces I), with its ends held in place by the spring-clamps (Z, which are preferably parts of one piece of metal, forming a trough like structure in which lies the body a. The rubber band f tends to hold the material 6 snugly to its seat. After a lead-pencil has been once properly sharpened with a penknife or the like, it can be nicely pointed and repointed from time to time by reciproeating and at the same time rotating the pen Serial No. 533,521. (No model.)

cil, with the end of the pencil in contact with the convergent faces and the body of the pencil a little out of alinement with such faces. When one piece of sandpaper or other like material 6 is used. up, a fresh piece is substituted.

It is necessary that the opening a should be uncovered and unobstructed at the top, that the end of the pencil may move back and forth therein and not be broken, and this opening also serves to collect the debris of abrasion.

I claim as my improvement 1. In combination, the body CL having convergent faces I), the abrading material 6, and the uncovered recessed opening a formed in the body a, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination, the body Ct having convergent faces I), the clamps d, and the separableabrading material c, all substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination, the body at having convergent faces I), the clamps cl, the rubber band f, and the separable abrading material c, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth. 4. In combination, the body at having convergent faces I), the separable abrading material e, and theclamps dformed of one piece of metal, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

'WILLIAM E. SIMONJD S.

Witnesses:

OHAs. L. BURDETT, A. B. JENKINS. 

